7.Steve Rader: Open Innovation at NASA

Total Innovation Podcast

Steve Rader serves as the Program Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) and the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL), which are working to infuse challenge and crowdsourcing innovation approaches at NASA and across the federal government. CoECI focuses on the study and use of curated, crowdsourcing communities that utilize prize and challenge-based methods to deliver innovative solutions for NASA and the U.S. government.

In 2015, Steve was named as one of 20 Challenge Mentors for U.S. Government Services Administration’s (GSA) Prizes and Challenges government-wide community of practice. Steve has worked with various projects and organizations to develop and execute over 100 different challenges. He speaks regularly about NASA’s work in crowd-based challenges and the future of work both publicly and internally to the NASA workforce to promote the use of open innovation tools.

Steve has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rice University and has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center for 33 years. Prior to joining CoECI/NTL, Steve worked in mission control, flight software development for the Space Shuttle and International Space Station, command and control systems development for the X-38, and led the Command, Control, Communications, & Information (C3I) architecture definition for the Constellation Program.
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Kapitel

1. Introduction to the Total Innovation Podcast (00:00:00)

2. Meet Steve Rader: NASA's Open Innovation Leader (00:00:03)

3. 1:08 The NASA Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (00:01:08)

4. Steve Rader's Journey into Crowdsourcing (00:02:29)

5. The Tsunami of Technology and Open Innovation (00:03:30)

6. Challenges and Successes in Open Innovation (00:05:53)

7. Early Days and Lessons Learned (00:07:53)

8. Building Internal Platforms and Overcoming Resistance (00:09:19)

9. Innovative Procurement and Multi-Vendor Contracts (00:11:23)

10. Linking Open Innovation to NASA's Mission (00:18:58)

11. Measuring Success and Engaging Experts (00:22:16)

12. Scaling Open Innovation at NASA (00:27:25)

13. Future Vision for Open Innovation at NASA (00:32:19)

14. Closing Thoughts and Where to Find Steve Rader (00:35:51)